Love Poverty and the God, and then the God will Love You
It is reportedly said that about 90% of Americans admit power and authority of Christianity, whether or not they are Christians, two thirds of them accept holy effect of the Bible and existence of the afterlife, and a half of them believe or see influences and works of devils, demons, and Satan. But, it seems that only 1% of them understand significance of the words of Christ Jesus that rich men cannot enter Heaven but fall into the hells after their death in this world.
In addition, 70% of people in the world believe in the God, but about 70% of the Chinese people do not believe in the existence of the God, and only 30% of the Japanese accept the idea that the God of Christianity exists. However, most of them seem to believe in the existence of deities of various religions other than Christianity, Judaism, or Islam. And about 90% of the Japanese celebrate Christmas day and know who Christ Jesus is, while they revere deities of Buddhism, shintoism, etc. And most of them pray to these deities so as to make them materially happy and rich.
But what is more significant is that most of Americans admit power and authority of the words of Christ Jesus but they do not accept His teaching that rich men cannot enter Heaven but fall into the hells after their death in this world. If they really accept the words of Christ Jesus, they should try to be poor as much as possible. Instead, they seem to try to be rich as much as possible.
The core of the Bible is the battle between Christ Jesus who encouraged people to accept poverty and Satan who tried to capture souls of people by use of money and wealth. Christ Jesus taught people that they have to accept poverty to show their love to the God and their neighbors. The more people become poor, the more they understand truth and teachings of the God. But, those who love money and wealth would rather sell their souls to Satan and hate Christ Jesus and his followers. They regard Satan as their god and thus regard followers of Christ Jesus as enemies of their god, who is Satan. In other words, this world and the human society became a place of battles between the followers of Christ Jesus and those of Satan.
Therefore, followers of Satan may believe in existence of the afterlife or the spirit world and Heaven and the hells, but they also believe that Satan and money will make them happy even after their death in this world. However, it seems that most of people are pursuing money and wealth without realizing that they are following Satan but not Christ Jesus.
So, the most important teaching of Christ Jesus is to accept, pursue, and love poverty and the poor so as to be accepted in Heaven after death in this world. Then, people would not sell their souls to Satan so as to be rich.
Indeed, the essence of the Gospels is that poverty leads to Heaven while wealth leads to the hells. Hate money and Satan but love poverty and the God, and then the God will love you.
Mark 4, King James Version
24 And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
25 For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he hath.
26 And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;
27 And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.